Epidemiology of Esophageal and Hypopharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Abstract

Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer worldwide, with 481,000 new cases (3.8% all newly diagnosed cancers) estimated in 2008, and the sixth most common cause of death from cancer, with 406,000 deaths (5.4% of all cancer deaths) [1]. These figures encompass both of the major histological types, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and adenocarcinoma (AC).

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